ICSAM 2003

ICSAM 2003
28 - 30 July 2003
St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK

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Scope and Topics

The conference is the eighth in the triennial series of International Conferences on Superplasticity in Advanced Materials. The ICSAM conferences are the pre-eminent international forum for superplastic forming and related areas. This conference aims to bring together those involved in all aspects of superplastic forming - industrial, academic, theoretical and experimental - in surroundings conducive to the fruitful exchange of information and ideas.

Major topics of the conference will include: 

• Superplasticity in metals, intermetallics, ceramics, nanostructured materials and composites
• Micromechanisms of grain boundary sliding and superplasticity
• Modelling of forming processes
• Diffusion bonding and other joining methods for superplastically formed parts
• New applications of superplastic forming
• Presses and tooling
• Failure mechanisms and the prediction of failure
• Die friction and its consequences
• Production and stability of fine grained microstructures
• Cavity nucleation and growth during superplastic flow
• Environmental superplasticity
• High strain rate superplasticity
• Microstructure-macroproperty relationships
• Development of constitutive equations for modelling purposes
• Fine grain production through severe plastic deformation
• New alloys for superplastic forming
• Product design for superplastic forming
• Future directions for superplasticity

For a list of keynote and invited speakers please click here.

Please address all questions to icsam2003@materials.ox.ac.uk